books about: dostoevsky

books about: dostoevsky

books:

Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction (Making of the Christian Imagination)
Rowan Williams

Baylor University Press, 2008

Rowan Williams explores the intricacies of speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography in the works of one of literature's most complex, and most complexly misunderstood, authors. Williams' investigation focuses on the four major novels of Dostoevsky's maturity (Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Devils, and The Brothers Karamozov). He argues that ...

Notes From Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Signet Classics, 2004

Brilliant
Fortunately, I missed reading this in high school- after finally reading it in my twenties, I honestly couldn't imagine having gotten nearly this much out of it. It's a brilliant character study of a sublime anti-hero. If this was "put on you" in high school and you ...

Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

W. W. Norton, 1989

the Coulson translation can't be beat
Just a quick note to point out that if you're gonna read "Crime and Punishment" in English, the Jesse Coulson translation is indisputably the best one published to date. Avoid at all costs the Garnett translation (as ubiquitous as it is stuffy), and try to keep away ...

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Meridian)

Plume, 1975

The Best Introduction to Existentialism
This anthology of Existentialist texts is the best introduction to Existentialism currently available in English. Walter Kaufmann (best known to philosophy readers as the twentieth century's most important translator of Nietzsche) presents a selection of key texts from ...

Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics)
Dostoevsky

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000

Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment ...

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 1993

Crime and Punishment
What can I say that hasn't been said already? This is probably the best fictional study of the effects of guilt and radical ideas on a troubled mind. The prose is flowing, and it's not hard to see why Dostoevsky considered his novels "poems". Dostoevsky's works in ...

Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Signet Classics, 2006

A Hard Read
This book is excellent but readers should take the time to read the Translator's Preface before jumping in. This will help to understand the names of the characters and other nuances that apply to a book translated from another language. The book is about redemption. ...

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 2003

A Contender for the greatest Russian novel?
If the title of this review grabbed your attention, you may argue with me. I believe, however, that the Idiot and Anna Karenina vie for this title (sorry, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov). Why? Dostoevsky has the uncanny knack of ...

The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everyman's Library, 1992

Amazing
"All religions are based upon this desire and I am a believer." He comes as close as any author to expressing truth in fiction.

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

Perhaps the best novel ever written in the history of mankind
At the beginning of my freshman year at college, a girl told me to read this book, it would 'change my life'. She wouldn't elaborate further. Now that I've read it, maybe I shouldn't either. Read it. Odd, its one of the most painful books I have ever read, it ...

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Modern Library, 2001

Don't let the short ones fool you- this is the real thing
I've only recently begun to read 19th century Russian literature, lured there by a chance reading of 'Crime and Punishment' which floored me. Upon finishing that book I knew that Dostoevsky was the real deal and felt a smug assurance that I could go into the bookstore, ...

Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849

Joseph Frank

Princeton University Press, 1979

Monumental
As Frank emphasizes repeatedly in the Preface (and in the prefaces of subsequent volumes), he is not writing as a biographer, strictly speaking, but rather as a literary critic (and to a lesser extent a socio-cultural historian) - primarily of Dostoevsky's novels. ...

The Brothers Karamazov: Classic Collection

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2008

Outstanding
I must admit that when I first began listening to this audiobook I did not care for the narrator's voice. After I made it to the second disk I began to more fully realize what a talented voice actor he actually was, and the remaining 28 disks or so were a great joy. ...

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004

A deep, psychological, verbose masterpiece!
The Brothers Karamazov is said to be the greatest and last novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. In reading the novel, one discovers why so. The novel is set in nineteenth century Russia, and deals with the story of three brothers, Dmitri, Ivan and Alyosha, and the ...

Demons (Everyman's Library, 182)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everyman's Library, 2000

Demons is a devil of a read on Russian angst/nihilism by the master Dostoevsky
Demons (also known as Possessed & The Devils) is a 1878 novel by literary genius Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881). The novel is long, difficult and rife with Russian names easy to confuse. The novel is also a work of art of peerless genius. The massive novel is set in ...